ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,345, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Event-based modification of personal device settings" was invented by Jeremy Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.), Vincent Pham (Seattle) and Austin Walters (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may relate to systems and methods for automatically adjusting user device settings when a user attends an event or otherwise brings a user device into a context in which an automatic adjustment of settings is appropriate. By providing for automatic adjusting of user device settings, the systems and methods may achieve greater compliance with ...